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Well, since I use Blogger and Typepad, that seems like a cop-out. You can set it so you get comments sent to you when posted - and then delete the comments if you believe or feel that they are SPAM.
Today, BL Ochman posted about the potential for bad PR for American Airlines. I read the article about American the other day in the WSJ - contest winner declines tickets - and smiled. I didn't think it was going to be a huge issue, because the guidelines were pretty explicit in the contest rules. It's an unfortunate event, but the IRS is the IRS.
I wanted to post a comment. I had a valid point that it's not bad PR, but crappy rules. But, apprently I'm no longer allowed to comment on BL's blog ... click the photo for her nice little statement.
Oh, this was my comment:
Is it a PR problem, or the inability to read and understand the fine print, and the lack of knowledge of tax laws?I guess this means that I no longer will be reading BL's blog (unless someone IM's me something for a laugh ... which is usually what happens). Which is fine, since I noticed that she doesn't post things so she can usually have the last word.
American Airlines has to declare the tickets at full value. Do they ever sell the tickets at full value? Probably 1 percent of the time - but per tax laws, that's what they have to do.
I feel bad for the guy - well, actually, I think it's pretty funny. But, is this really deserved bad press for American Airlines? Even if they gave him vouchers, they and he have to technically declare the value to the IRS.
Why did this come about? Likely because I posted a comment on this post, asking why she felt she had to attack Constantin Basturea. I like Constantin. I've met Constantin. And, no offence to Constantin but attacking him is like kicking a puppy. The man has done nothing but good for PR and the blogosphere: New PR Wiki, Global PR Blog Week, Blogdigger Headlines, plus much more.
So, why moderate comments? Steve Rubel just went to the same policy (although no explanation), which would make me think that if he moderates, he would respond more to comments, but alas that is not happening either.
To me, comment moderation is good for corporate blogs. In a corporate blog, you do have people that are trying to attack the company on unfair grounds. I have posted comments on the GM Fastlane blog - something usually along the lines of move out of Detroit, to save the company - but those get moderated. And, at the IABC Conference, GM noted that their agency does help moderate comments.
But, individual blogs? Blogs written by people in an industry that pounds its chest about open communications and how blogs are equalizing the world, and how these are great venues for a two-way dialogue? Well, that two-way dialogue ends when comments are moderated. Then it's just lip service.
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Lord, the Gluttony Monster comes to my house at night. He doesn't bother me during the day for the most part, but he shows up most every night to harass me. How can I fight him? He's bigger and stronger than me. I'm such a weakling against him. He beats me up most every night.
He usually shows up every evening around suppertime, sometimes before supper, sometimes after. Then he hangs around for a late night snack, only it's a buffet. Sometimes he rides in the car with me and forces me to turn my car into the fast food drive-up windows. What can I do?
I'm not supposed to have murder in my heart. This I know, but I REALLY WANT TO KILL this Gluttony Monster. He's taking control of my life and I'm sick of it. He torments me all the time. I feel so helpless and defeated by this enemy.
This past Wednesday night at church, the pastor said that you don't have to give into sin and then say you can't help it. He said the only reason you can't help it is that you're not willing to yield yourself to the Holy Spirit's control. Lord, is that true?
Yes, My child, it is true.
Well then, Lord,. . . I give myself to You right now. Place me under the control of Your Holy spirit. You take control of me. Anyway I'm not doing a very good job of self-control right now. As a matter of fact, it seems I've never done a good job of self-control. I give myself to You. Take me, use me, for I am Yours.
Help me kill this Gluttony monster? Help me! I hate being controlled by him.
Child of Mine, one way to defeat this Gluttony Monster is to quit feeding him. Feed your soul instead.
Lord, how do I do that?
To begin with, feed your soul by reading My Word, The Bible. Reading your Bible instead of looking at that Facebook will make you stronger. You give medicine to your dog twice a day. When your Dad was recuperating at your house after his knee surgery, he took medicine twice a day. Now I'm giving you a spiritual prescription. Read My Word twice a day, morning and night. If you do this, you will grow stronger and defeat this Gluttony Monster, your enemy.
That's how I defeated My enemy. I had been in the Wilderness for 40 days and my enemy came with all his temptations, but I defeated him with the Word of God. I defeated him with, "It is written . . ."
Once you become full of My Word, you can also tell your enemy, "It is written." He can never go against My Word. I won't even go against My Word. If it is written, then it is forever to be.
You must feed on My solid food to defeat and destroy this Gluttony Monster. Now My child, get out your Bible and feed yourself My solid food. You aren't a wimpy baby. 'It is written'. Now feed My Words to your mind and grow up.
For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. Psalm 18:39
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AMITYVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. (NAS: HITK) today announced that it is scheduled to make an investor presentation at the Needham 12th Annual Healthcare Conference Tuesday, April 29, 2013, at 10:40 a.m. Eastern Time.
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"After him I saw mighty Herakles,
but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the
immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Zeus
and Hera. The ghosts were screaming round him like scared birds
flying in all directions. He looked black as night with his bare bow
in his hands and his arrow on the string, glaring around as though
ever on the point of taking aim. About his breast there was a
wondrous golden belt adorned in the most marvelous fashion with
bears, wild boars, and lions with gleaming eyes; there was also war,
battle, and death. The man who made that belt, do what he might,
would never be able to make another like it. Herakles knew me at once
when he saw me, and spoke piteously, saying, 'My poor Odysseus,
noble son of Laertes, are you too leading the same sorry kind of life
that I did when I was above ground? I was son of Zeus, but I went
through an infinity of suffering, for I became bondsman to one who
was far beneath me - a lowly man who set me all manner of labors
[athloi]. He once sent me here to fetch the hell-hound
- for he did not think he could find any athlos harder for me
than this, but I got the hound out of Hades and brought him to him,
for Hermes and Athena helped me.'
"On this Herakles went down again
into the house of Hades, but I stayed where I was in case some other
of the mighty dead should come to me. And I should have seen still
other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen -
Theseus and Peirithoos glorious children of the gods, but so many
thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries,
that I was panic stricken lest Persephone should send up from the
house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon. On this I
hastened back to my ship and ordered my men to go on board at once
and loose the hawsers; so they embarked and took their places,
whereon the ship went down the stream of the river Okeanos. We had to
row at first, but presently a fair wind sprang up.
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Out of the multitude of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas who had flocked from other worlds, Bodhisattvas eight (times) equal to the sands of the river Ganges then rose from the assembled circle. Their joined hands stretched out towards the Lord to pay him homage, they said to him: If the Lord will allow us, we also would, after the extinction of the Lord, reveal this Dharmaparyâya in this Saha-world; we would read, write, worship it, and wholly devote ourselves to that law. Therefore, O Lord, deign to grant to us also this Dharmaparyâya. And the Lord answered: Nay, young men of good family, why should you occupy yourselves with this task? I have here in this Saha-world thousands of Bodhisattvas equal to the sands of sixty Ganges rivers, forming the train of one Bodhisattva; and of such Bodhisattvas there is a number equal to the sands of sixty Ganges rivers, each of these Bodhisattvas having an equal number in their train, who at the end of time, at the last period after my extinction, shall keep, read, proclaim this Dharmaparyâya.
No sooner had the Lord uttered these words than the Saha-world burst open on every side, and from within the clefts arose many hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas with gold-coloured bodies and the thirty-two characteristic signs of a great man, who had been staying in the element of ether underneath this great earth, close to this Saha-world. These then on hearing the word of the Lord came up from below the earth. Each of these Bodhisattvas had a train of thousands of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of sixty Ganges rivers; (each had) a troop, a great troop, as teacher of a troop. Of such Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas having a troop, a great troop, as teachers of a troop, there were hundred thousands of myriads of kotis equal to the sands of sixty Ganges rivers, who emerged from the gaps of the earth in this Saha-world. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of fifty Ganges rivers; much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas having a train of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of forty Ganges rivers; Of 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Ganges river; of 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, 1/10, 1/20, 1/50, 1/100, 1/1000, 1/100,000, 1/10,000,000, 1/100 X 10,000,000, 1/1000 X 10,000,000, 1/100 X 1000 X 10,000,000, 1/100 X 1000 X 10,000 X 10,000,000 part of the river Ganges. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas having a train of many hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas; of one koli; of one hundred thousand; of one thousand; Of 500; Of 400; Of 300; Of 200; Of 100; Of 50; Of 40; Of 30; Of 20; Of 10; Of 5, 4, 3, 2. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas having one follower. Much more there were to be found of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas standing isolated. They cannot be numbered, counted, calculated, compared, known by occult science, the Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas who emerged from the gaps of the earth to appear in this Saha-world. And after they had successively emerged they went up to the Stûpa of precious substances which stood in the sky, where the Lord Prabhûtaratna, the extinct Tathâgata, was seated along with the Lord Sâkyamuni on the throne. Whereafter they saluted the feet of both Tathâgatas, &c., as well as the images of Tathâgatas produced by the Lord Sâkyamuni from his own body, who all together were seated on thrones at the foot of various jewel trees on every side in all directions, in different worlds. After these Bodhisattvas had many hundred thousand times saluted, and thereon circumambulated the Tathâgatas, &c., from left to right, and celebrated them with various Bodhisattva hymns, they went and kept themselves at a little distance, the joined hands stretched out to honour the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., and the Lord Prabhûtaratna, the Tathâgata, &c.
And while those Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas who had emerged from the gaps of the earth were saluting and celebrating the Tathâgatas by various Bodhisattva hymns, fifty intermediate kalpas in full rolled away, during which fifty intermediate kalpas the Lord Sâkyamuni remained silent, and likewise the four classes of the audience. Then the Lord produced such an effect of magical power that the four classes fancied that it had been no more than one afternoon, and they saw this Saha-world assume the appearance of hundred thousands of worlds replete with Bodhisattvas. The four Bodhisattvas Mahisattvas who were the chiefest of that great host of Bodhisattvas, viz. the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva called Visishtakâritra (i.e. of eminent conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahasattva called Anantakâritra (i.e. of endless conduct), the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva called Visuddhakâritra (i.e. of correct conduct), and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva called Supratishthitakâritra (i.e. of very steady conduct), these four Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas standing at the head of the great host, the great multitude of Bodhisattvas stretched out the joined hands towards the Lord and addressed him thus: Is the Lord in good health? Does he enjoy well-being and good ease? Are the creatures decorous, docile, obedient, correctly performing their task, so that they give no trouble to the Lord?
And those four Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas addressed the Lord with the two following stanzas:
1. Does the Lord of the world, the illuminator, feel at ease? Dost thou feel free from bodily disease, O Perfect One?
2. The creatures, we hope, will be decorous, docile, performing the orders of the Lord of the world, so as to give no trouble.
And the Lord answered the four Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas who were at the head of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas: So it is, young men of good family, I am in good health, well-being, and at ease. And these creatures of mine are decorous, docile, obedient, well performing what is ordered; they give no trouble when I correct them; and that, young men of good family, because these creatures, owing to their being already prepared under the ancient, perfectly enlightened Buddhas, have but to see and hear me to put trust in me, to understand and fathom the Buddha-knowledge. And those who fulfilled their duties in the stage of disciples have now been introduced by me into Buddha-knowledge and well instructed in the highest truth.
And at that time the Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas uttered the following stanzas:
3. Excellent, excellent, O great Hero! we are happy to hear that those creatures are decorous, docile, well performing their duty';
4. And that they listen to thy profound knowledge, O Leader, and that after listening to it they have put trust in it and understand it.
This said, the Lord declared his approval to the four Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas who were at the head of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, saying: Well done, young men of good family, well done, that you so congratulate the Tathâgata.
And at that moment the following thought arose in the mind of the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Maitreya and the eight hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of the river Ganges: We never yet saw so great a host, so great a multitude of Bodhisattvas; we never yet heard of such a multitude, that after issuing from the gaps of the earth has stood in the presence of the Lord to honour, respect, venerate, worship him and greet him with joyful shouts. Whence have these Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas flocked hither?
Then the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Maitreya, feeling within himself doubt and perplexity, and inferring from his own thoughts those of the eight hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas similar to the sands of the river Ganges, stretched out his joined hands towards the Lord and questioned him about the matter by uttering the following stanzas:
5. Here are many thousand myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas, numberless, whom we never saw before; tell us, O supreme of men!
6. Whence and how do these mighty persons come? Whence have they come here under the form of great bodies'?
7. All are great Seers, wise and strong in memory, whose outward appearance is lovely to see; whence have they come?
8. And each of those Bodhisattvas, O Lord of the world, has an immense train, like the sands of the Ganges.
9. The train of (each) glorious Bodhisattva is equal to the sands of sixty Ganges in full. All are striving after enlightenment.
10. Of such heroes and mighty possessors of a troop the followers are equal to the sands of sixty Ganges.
11. There are others, still more numerous, with an unlimited train, like the sands of fifty, forty, and thirty Ganges;
12, 13. Who have a train equal to the (sands of) twenty Ganges. Still more numerous are the mighty sons of Buddha, who have each a train (equal to the sands) of ten, of five Ganges. Whence, O Leader, has such an assembly flocked hither?
14. There are others who have each a train of pupils and companions equal to the sands of four, three, or two Ganges.
15. There are others more numerous yet; it would be impossible to calculate their number in thousands of kotis of Æons.
16. (Equal to) a half Ganges, one third, one tenth, one twentieth, is the train of those heroes, those mighty Bodhisattvas.
17. There are yet others who are incalculable; it would be impossible to count them even in hundreds of kotis of Æons.
18. Many more yet there are, with endless trains; they have in their attendance kotis, and kotis and again kotis, and also half kotis.
19. Other great Seers again, beyond computation, very wise Bodhisattvas are seen in a respectful posture.
20. They have a thousand, a hundred, or fifty attendants; in hundreds of kotis of Æons one would not be able to count them.
21. The suite of (some of these) heroes consists of twenty, of ten, five, four, three, or two; those are countless.
22. As to those who are walking alone and come to their rest alone, they have now flocked hither in such numbers as to be beyond computation.
23. Even if one with a magic wand in his hand would try for a number of Æons equal to the sands of the Ganges to count them, he would not reach the term.
24. Where do all those noble, energetic heroes, those mighty Bodhisattvas, come from?
25. Who has taught them the law (or duty)? and by whom have they been destined to enlightenment? Whose command do they accept? Whose command do they keep?
26. Bursting forth at all points of the horizon through the whole extent of the earth they emerge, those great Sages endowed with magical faculty and wisdom.
27. This world on every side is being perforated, O Seer, by the wise Bodhisattvas, who at this time are emerging.
28. Never before have we seen anything like this. Tell us the name of this world, O Leader.
29. We have repeatedly roamed in all directions of space, but never saw these Bodhisattvas.
30. We never saw a single infant of thine, and now, on a sudden, these appear to us. Tell us their history, O Seer.
31. Hundreds, thousands, ten thousands of Bodhisattvas, all equally filled with curiosity, look up to the highest of men.
32. Explain to us, O incomparable, great hero,who knowest no bounds, where do these heroes, these wise Bodhisattvas, come from?
Meanwhile the Tathâgatas, &c., who had flocked from hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of worlds, they, the creations of the Lord Sâkyamuni, who were preaching the law to the beings in other worlds; who all around the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., were seated with crossed legs on magnificent jewel thrones at the foot of jewel trees in every direction of space; as well as the satellites of those Tathâgatas were struck with wonder and amazement at the sight of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas emerging from the gaps of the earth and established in the element of ether, and they (the satellites) asked each their own Tathâgata: Where, O Lord, do so many Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, so innumerable, so countless, come from? Whereupon those Tathâgatas, &c., answered severally to their satellites: Wait awhile, young men of good family; this Bodhisattva Mahâsattva here, called Maitreya, has just received from the Lord Sâkyamuni a revelation about his destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment. He has questioned the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., about the matter, and the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathâgata, &c., is going to explain it; then you may hear.
Thereupon the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Maitreya: Well done, Agita, well done; it is a sublime subject, Agita, about which thou questionest me. Then the Lord addressed the entire host of Bodhisattvas: Be attentive all, young men of good family - be well prepared and steady on your post, you and the entire host of Bodhisattvas; the Tathâgata, the Arhat, &c., is now going to exhibit the sight of the knowledge of the Tathâgata, young men of good family, the leadership of the Tathâgata, the work of the Tathâgata, the sport [i.e. magic display of creative power, lîlâ, synonymous with mâyâ.] of the Tathâgata, the might of the Tathâgata, the energy of the Tathâgata.
And on that occasion the Lord pronounced the following stanzas:
33. Be attentive all, young men of good family; I am to utter an infallible word; refrain from disputing about it, O sages: the science of the Tathâgata is beyond reasoning.
34. Be all steady and thoughtful; continue attentive all. To-day you will hear a law as yet unknown, the wonder of the Tathâgatas.
35. Never have any doubt, ye sages, for I shall strengthen you, I am the Leader who speaketh infallible truth, and my knowledge is unlimited.
36. Profound are the laws known to the Sugata, above reasoning and beyond argumentation. These laws I am going to reveal; ye, hear which and how they are.
After uttering these stanzas the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya: I announce to thee, Agita, I declare to thee: These Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, Agita, so innumerable, incalculable, inconceivable, incomparable, uncountable, whom you never saw before, who just now have issued from the gaps of the earth, these Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, Agita, have I roused, excited, animated, fully developed to supreme, perfect enlightenment after my having arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment in this world. I have, moreover, fully matured, established, confirmed, instructed, perfected these young men of good family in their Bodhisattvaship. And these Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, Agita, occupy in this Saha-world the domain of the ether-element below. Only thinking of the lesson they have to study, and devoted to thoroughly comprehend it, these young men of good family have no liking for social gatherings, nor for bustling crowds; they do not put off their tasks, and are strenuous. These young men of gyood family, Agita, delight in seclusion, are fond of seclusion. These young men of good family do not dwell in the immediate vicinity of gods and men, they not being fond of bustling crowds. These young men of good family find their luxury in the pleasure of the law, and apply themselves to Buddha-knowledge.
And on that occasion the Lord uttered the following stanzas:
37. These Bodhisattvas, immense, inconceivable and beyond measure, endowed with magic power, wisdom, and learning, have progressed in knowledge for many kotis of Æons.
38. It is I who have brought them to maturity for enlightenment, and it is in my field that they have their abode; by me alone have they been brought to maturity; these Bodhisattvas are my sons.
39. All have devoted themselves to a hermit life and are assiduous in shunning places of bustle; they walk detached, these sons of mine, following my precepts in their lofty course.
40. They dwell in the domain of ether, in the lower portion of the field, those heroes who, unwearied, are striving day and night to attain superior knowledge.
41. All strenuous, of good memory, unshaken in the immense strength of their intelligence, those serene sages preach the law, all radiant, as being my sons.
42. Since the time when I reached this superior (or foremost) enlightenment, at the town of Gayâ, at the foot of the tree, and put in motion the allsurpassing wheel of the law, I have brought to maturity all of them for superior enlightenment.
43. These words I here speak are faultless, really true; believe me, all of you who hear me: verily, I have reached superior enlightenment, and it is by me alone that all have been brought to maturity.
The Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Maitreya and those numerous hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas were struck with wonder, amazement, and surprise, (and thought): How is it possible that within so short a moment, within the lapse of so short a time so many Bodhisattvas, so countless, have been roused and made fully ripe to reach supreme, perfect enlightenment? Then the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Maitreya asked the Lord: How then, O Lord, has the Tathâgata, after he left, when a prince royal, Kapilavastu, the town of the Sâkyas, arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment on the summit of the terrace of enlightenment, not far from the town of Gayâ, somewhat more than forty years since, O Lord? How then has the Lord, the Tathâgata, within so short a lapse of time, been able to perform the endless task of a Tathâgata, to exercise the leadership of a Tathâgata, the energy of a Tathâgata? How has the Tathâgata, within so short a time, been able to rouse and bring to maturity for supreme, perfect enlightenment this host of Bodhisattvas, this multitude of Bodhisattvas, a multitude so great that it would be impossible to count the whole of it, even if one were to continue counting for hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of Æons? These Bodhisattvas, so innumerable, O Lord, so countless, having long followed a spiritual course of life and planted roots of goodness under many hundred thousands of Buddhas, have in the course of many hundred thousands of Æons become finally ripe.
It is just as if some man, young and youthful, a young man with black hair and in the prime of youth, twenty-five years of age, would represent centenarians as his sons, and say: 'Here, young men of good family, you see my sons;' and if those centenarians would declare: 'This is the father who begot us! Now, Lord, the speech of that man would be incredible, hard to be believed by the public. It is the same case with the Tathâgata, who but lately has arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment, and with these Bodhisattvas Mahâsattvas, so immense in number, who for many hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Æons, having observed a spiritual course of life, have long since come to certainty in regard to Tathâgata-knowledge; who are able to plunge in and again rise from the hundred thousand sorts of meditation'; who are adepts at the preparatories to noble transcendent wisdom, have accomplished the preparatories to noble transcendent wisdom; who are clever on the Buddha-ground, able in the (ecclesiastical) Council and in Tathâgata duties; who are the wonder and admiration of the world; who are possessed of great vigour, strength, and power. And the Lord says: From the very beginning have I roused, brought to maturity, fully developed them to be fit for this Bodhisattva position. It is I who have displayed this energy and vigour after arriving at supreme, perfect enlightenment. But, O Lord, how can we have faith in the words of the Tathâgata, when he says: The Tathâgata speaks infallible truth? The Tathâgata must know that the Bodhisattvas who have newly entered the vehicle are apt to fall into doubt on this head; after the extinction of the Tathâgata those who hear this Dharmaparyâya will not accept, not believe, not trust it. Hence, O Lord, they will design acts tending to the ruin of the law. Therefore, O Lord, deign to explain us this matter, that we may be free from perplexity, and that the Bodhisattvas who in future shall hear it, be they young men of good family or young ladies, may not fall into doubt.
On that occasion the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya addressed the Lord with the following stanzas:
44. When thou wert born in Kapilavastu, the home of the Sâkyas, thou didst leave it and reach enlightenment at the town of Gayâ. That is a short time ago, O Lord of the world.
45. And now thou hast so great a crowd of followers, these sages who for many kotis of Æons have fulfilled their duties, stood firm in magic power, unshaken, well disciplined, accomplished in the might of wisdom;
46. These, who are untainted as the lotus is by water; who to-day have flocked hither after rending the earth, and are standing all with joined hands, respectful and strong in memory, the sons of the Master of the world.
47. How will these Bodhisattvas believe this great wonder? Expel (all) doubt, tell the cause, and show how the matter reallv is.
48. It is as if there were some man, a young man with black hair, twenty years old or somewhat more, who presented as his sons some centenarians,
49. And the latter, covered with wrinkles and grey-haired, declared the (young) man to be their father. But such (a young man) never having sons of such appearance, it would be difficult to believe, O Lord of the world, that they were sons to so young a man.
50. In the same manner, O Lord, we are unable to conceive how these numerous Bodhisattvas of good memory and excelling in wisdom, who have been well instructed during thousands of kotis of Æons;
5 1. Who are firm, of keen intelligence, lovely and agreeable to sight, free from hesitation in the decisions on law, praised by the Leaders of the world;
52. Who in freedom live in the wood; who unattached in the element of ether constantly display their energy, who are the sons of Sugata striving after this Buddha-ground;
5 3. How will this be believed when the Leader of the world shall be completely extinct? After hearing it from the Lord's own mouth we shall never more feel any doubt.
54. May Bodhisattvas never come to grief by having doubt on this head. Grant us, O Lord, a truthful account how these Bodhisattvas have been brought to maturity by thee.


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The Pain of Restoring Investor Confidence
Yesterday, the Dow continued to fall – down 130 points. Oil slipped lower too. And gold rose. Just as you'd expect. But two days a trend does not make.
And what's in the news this morning?
"Europe left reeling as the people revolt against austerity measures," says a headline in the TIMES.
Spain's ruling Socialists got hammered at the polls. Borrowing costs are rising – pushing Italy, Spain and Greece closer to default. There is really no way out. The IMF – under DSK – made things worse by lending more money to governments that can't pay it back. And now, day by day, the whole smelly pile of European government and bank debt gets closer to the fan.
Of course, debt deflation – writing down, defaulting, foreclosing – is what a Great Correction is meant to do.
In America, except at the household level, the authorities have been able to push off the moment of truth…apparently indefinitely. The feds have a 'little technology called the printing press.' And they're ready to use it!
In Europe, it's not so easy. The Germans don't want to see their cash cheapened so that the lazy Zorbas, carefree Guidos, and sun-browned Rauls can continue to live in a style to which they have become accustomed.
Naturally, the Greeks are miffed. A Reuters report provides more detail:
…a large majority of Greeks reject more austerity, according to a poll published on Saturday, which also shows the ruling socialists losing their lead versus the conservative opposition for the first time since their 2009 election victory.
"Debt restructuring is not under discussion," Papandreou said in an interview in Sunday newspaper Ethnos.
One year into its EU/IMF 110-billion euro bailout, Greece is struggling with weak revenues and deep recession, fuelling speculation that it will have to restructure its debt to pull itself out of the fiscal mess that triggered a euro zone crisis.
Everyone sees this tension between the strong center and the weak periphery as a 'weakness' of the European system. We see it as a strength. Not being able to debauch your currency is not a bad thing.
But over on the editorial pages of The New York Times, Paul Krugman tells us that austerity is a losing battle. He refers to people who call for spending cutbacks – in the US as in Europe – as the "pain caucus."
As usual, Krugman sees the superficial mechanics of the system, but misunderstands its deep moral structure. Pain is for losers, he seems to say, as if enlightened economists could rid the world of suffering forever.
Sensible, solid finances bring forth long-term investment, capital formation and real growth. But not without some pain. Everyone makes mistakes; owning up to them is always painful. Ask Dominique Strauss-Kahn. By taking some pain now economies will be able to rebuild confidence…and thereby encourage greater investment and prosperity in the future. That's the argument in favor of austerity measures. After all, banks and governments of the European periphery states borrowed too much and gambled too recklessly during the boom years. They need to pay for those mistakes before their economies can build on a more solid foundation.
Krugman ridicules the idea. He believes there is no payoff to austerity. He must think the 'austerians' want pain for its own sake.
"The confidence fairy hasn't shown up yet," he writes.
What does he expect? You don't get confidence overnight. Besides, what have the Europeans done to deserve it? Like their American counterparts, they've generally listened to simpletons like Krugman. They've bailed out their banks, run public deficits, and added to their debts.
And now 'confidence is plunging,' says Krugman. Well, yes. Investors don't know what to expect. Will there be another round of bailouts? A 'soft default' by restructuring and 're-profiling' debt? Will Greece be booted out of the EU? Who could have confidence in this?
Krugman worries that the ECB will show some backbone – refusing any more bailouts to Greece. Then, "it's all too easy to see how it could start financial dominoes falling across Europe." That would be a disaster to the Nobel winner. Just like the failure of Wall Street banks…and Fannie Mae…and Freddie Mac…and GM…would have been disasters.
The man learns nothing. Central banks have spent the last 4 years trying to prevent a reckoning of the worlds' debts. And the debts just get larger.


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Introduction by CHARLES ALEXANDER
Who Troubles the Waters?
I do not know a way to
characterize David Abel's work so that I do it justice, and I mean that as a
very high compliment. I have seen works by him that look like musical or
performance scores (and indeed may be approached as such); I have seen works by
him that look like poems on the page; I have seen works by him in which each
page is a screen or curtain over another and another, and the wonders keep
revealing themselves as one turns pages. In other words, David Abel hails from
Basho through John Clare through Marcel Duchamp through Jackson Mac Low. He
pays attention to earth and sky, yet he looks at them as though there are
wonders yet to be discovered, by skewing the lens, or combining Q with Y, or
simply by paying attention for a little bit longer. He does pay attention for
great lengths of time, and such time he deserves from his audience as well, as
we will be rewarded.
In the current work, we
begin "in" states of extremity "intolerable" and "ineradicable." Yet we turn to
see ourselves and remember "How I used to laugh at the mirror!" (104) In other
words, we live in the world, as humans in time, and it is only in time that we
can understand the extremes and also become one with them, "in the fold."
Change, the day to day, the counting of breaths, the notice of shadows, the
rupture of living, constitutes the being of these poems. But while some other
poet might make a high drama of such moments, Abel's great triumph is to lead
us, with language, to understand something fairly Buddhist about the progress
of our days. I say "with language" because even a sound can take us toward
understanding. Here, the sound is that made by "ure" in
a fissure
is a rupture
that is part rapture,
part scripture
a facture
that captures
the azure
in a texture
We may live in folds and
fissures, but we also live in our utterances, and Abel's work is a reminder of
the pleasures of uttering a word such as "gusset." (147)
This may sound like a
catalogue of simple pleasures and attentions, but a trip through the work will
belie such a notion, because "behind" and "beneath" take us not only into our
own underworlds, but into "the pain of others" and places where there are
"ghosts" and a growing "cyclone" that may engulf us, songbirds and all. (225)
I had thought I might try to
write a real introduction to the work, as a whole, of David Abel. But to invoke
one of his favorite poets, Robert Creeley (who can also be found within this
work), in writing of another poet, "Not even a sunrise could quite manage
that." Yet the sun itself, shining over and around objects, creates shadows,
and "The shadow is a placeholder / for the double." My double, your double, we
all have others, we all have shadows. You will find many of them here, in the words
and between the words, "out of the corner of the eye." (259)
One could live with these
poems every day, again and again.
--Charles Alexander
16 July 2014
Intolerable joy, ineradicable pain
living in the fold,
as time turns on its contours
How I used to laugh at the mirror!
red coupe behind black
beside the house
familiar tree:
is it changed
by eyes, ears, feet, feelers?
manipulated ground
"weeds happen"
leaf-blowers, lawn-mowers,
rakes, weed-eaters, edgers,
ladders, trash barrels, tree doctors
the whole world green
with envy
lightly roasted green tea
sewn into a flower
at bottom
sewn to pages
(pages sewn to leaves)
Parque Xicotencatl
has a number —
you count your paces
or I count my breaths,
and the campesinos with their brooms
sweep the paths of the calendar
the shadows
of true gaps
the book as a machine for exaggerating threshold
spooky shoes
for T.F.
a fissure
is a rupture
that is part rapture,
part scripture
a facture
that captures
the azure
in a texture
Mini Essay
for Joe Brainard
"Gusset" is a word that makes me happy just to know it.
it's the odds — or the gods —
We are haunted by our real-life.
the shade of our error
the horse that isn't a horse until we name it
The Generations of Electricity
Not "Her" veil —
for which all literal veils are metaphors
another sense precedes
my metaphysics —
we make things,
that's what we do
She likes the expression: life is densely filled, and she loves the densely filled life
that is hers and the pleasure she takes in it, she loves people who share this
pleasure with her, without affectation or gloom.
The Actual Teaching Practice of the School of Agility
It is significant that Zacconi speaks of the ornament of
the repeated attack on the same note as the true door
for entering into the art of passages . . .
The chain of events which results in the publication of certain books is often
wrought from links of coincidence. One of the most interesting phases of
American history embraces the removal of 60,000 Indians from the southern
states and their adaptation to a new home within what is now the State of
Oklahoma. If The Other Fifties were to realize its intent, few Americans would be
able to think of the 1950s as either simple, innocent, happy, unanimously
supportive of a broad spectrum of beliefs, or radically separated from the 1960s
by a culture of complacence. A new book by Richard Foreman is an event, but I
think that this book will astonish. When early writers told of the West and
Southwest, they were, with few exceptions, writing of a region east of the
Mississippi River. In relation to his true stature, Arnold Bax is now far and away
the most neglected British composer who flourished in the first half of the century.
Before reading this book, you should know a few facts about me. When an event
in history leaves behind a priceless piece of itself—a journal page, a map, a
leather shoe, a ship's wooden skeleton—it is something worth noting. For the
past three summers, bystanders on the waterfront of the Egyptian city of
Alexandria have been treated to an unusual sight. "What? Alexander dead?
Impossible! The world would reek of his corpse!"
the behind or beneath
of mutually exclusive desires
"true" aspiration
if I believed in writing, dreaming,
assured of having everything in time
if I believed the pain of others
did not indict me
From the Polish
They were already ghosts, those two.
Years later, in another country,
name trimmed and oiled back,
From Another Tongue
The unfamiliar words wrapped around your ears
like the newspaper clutching the feet of less
fortunate girls on the high street,
To the Yiddish
Do songbirds tell me more
than the idling engine?
Out in the warm waters, a cyclone matures.
The view was, who knows, probably pretty.
The destruction of the body —
last prepositions.
About face.
Coffee —
Salami and eggs —
A fishing knot —
A figure of speech —
Will you testify to my intentions?
My testicles intestate.
Terrified on your best day.
My respite from abstention.
Will you transliterate my confessions?
My unspoken word.
My literal father is dead.
My literal mind a dead end.
Hunger will always hover behind every taste.
The hard labor of the other always goes unnaturalized.
Endlessly disposing we have displaced the world we so briefly, so blissfully were
alien to.
Only the buses left to remind our ears of the sea.
Fare well, Nature.
Fare well, Nature.
I bought a Talking Love Stamp Parrot
for my Smelling Nose Dog
Kitchen magnets
for cancer survivors
Support our stockbrokers
"the die is cast"
an exhibit of dies
She can't sleep
The chimes surround the loft, sirens at open windows and doors, the bed aloft an
island a raft she can't stay strapped to its missing/insistent mast
Sirens also speed through her incomprehension
Wind itself — before it borrows bodies of metal, wood, water — rouses her from
feverish dreams
Dreams she refuses, again and again, each refusal taking root in another quarter
of her body, signal fires lighting the night —
Until she opens her eyes and cries out no one's name
A socket in a ceiling
A cord between table and heaven, bringing the outside-in outside again
Doors and windows open to suddenly cool night air in the regressed café
The chessplayers: gendered, tattooed thought
The season's first scarf
How many holes can culture make in a wall (before the wall is repaired)
We only know partitions, here in the lab
Larger and smaller than a clock
The science of credence unprized
Septic wonders of the world
She traced the edges of her lips with her fingertips as a necessary corollary of
speech subsumed
New ladies seen ailing here
None dies in line
New diet sins straight
The jacket again (black, leather, lining torn)
The stain (suede, defiled)
All scheduled light a work against the unnameable
(whose lungs burn so that this hand can cast its moving shadow?)
Whose sleeping child's meal is warmed by the stabbing pain that tears through
your side?
The alternative energy of death
No day without a limit
Most of the talking goes on in North America.
Diarrhea — second to heart disease.
Let's not talk about it (for 23 years).
Chris D. started a commie blog.
I want to re-embrace deeper pleasures,
but I'm lazy (or am I just afraid?).
I thought about telling all my secrets
(including the unremarkable ones) —
if I lecture you on a subject of serious importance,
you will cease to exist. Then I'll see you?
800 million heartbeats — is that enough?
The corpse flower, titan arum, lives just one day.
(But not any particular day.)
Perhaps I will find my dark silence now.
It is midnight
and your birthday arrives unannounced
six feet six, without knocking
I'm washing dishes
I'm washing the cracked bowl
it is always midnight, here
in your birthday, the dark side
of the moon of your bright death
it has already been midnight
everywhere else, you were born
and you died everywhere but here
until this moment, here, in the space
between all the languages you wore
like a giant
Does she wait for you,
bajo la luna —
you see her
with your voice
your delirious darkness
lit by a Cuban cigar
Meek School Garden Club Box
1882: US Navy destroys the Tlingit village of Angoon
Nietzsche: the nerves of Shelley, the stomach of Carlyle, and the soul of a young lady.
a ghost
at the rehearsals
of a life that was
not to be
This island is no bigger
than your broad back —
you wear it
like a summer shirt,
the names tatooed across
your chest and shoulders —
Barceloneta . . . Cordova . . .
stuffed with thousands
because inevitable
lost in time
It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers, nowadays, who
undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but
tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearthside from which we set
out. Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest
walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, prepared to
send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
the train runs beside my life —
lines that don't meet
except in the ear,
words to a song
from my parents' childhood
The shadow is a placeholder
for the double
sustaining energy
the dark side of the moon
out of the corner of the eye
who dances, who upsets, who troubles the waters, who tells the story, who sings,
who watches in silence, who carries the news, who feeds the children, who sees
double, who gets lost, who finds the next safe haven by getting lost, who never
begins, who takes the reins, who calculates the equinox, who heals the sick, who
dies, who dies to die, who lives to die, who lives to live to die to die
Author's Note on SWEEP:
I embarked on this open-ended sequence nearly ten years ago. A collage of poetry, prose, and quotation, it is in equal parts journal, poem-sequence, and commonplace book; essentially, everything that I write that doesn't insist on its own autonomy is fair game to be incorporated into the ongoing drafts. Earlier sections appeared in Hubbub and are forthcoming in the second issue of pallaksch, pallaksch. The sections reproduced here include borrowings (in italics) from Marguerite Duras, Endi Hartigan, Christa Wolf, Czeslaw Milosz, Salvatore Sciarrino, Witold Gombrowicz, and Henry David Thoreau.
David Abel is the author of Float, a collection of collage texts spanning twenty-five years (Chax Press); Tether, a chapbook of poems (Barebone books); and Carrier, a hypergraphic visual sequence (c.L. Books), as well as numerous artist's books and chapbooks, most recently Elysian Ellipses and Shawarma Tractor. With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series. He is a founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its thirteenth year. An inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art, he curated the exhibitions Chax Press: Publishing Poetics for the Pacific NW College of Art and Object Poems for 23 Sandy Gallery. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as an editor and is the proprietor of Passages Bookshop.
Charles Alexander is a poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press, one of the only independent presses which specializes in innovative poetry and the book arts.


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The Great Cinema Party (Raya Martin, 2012)
The monochrome snippets from various unearthed footage of the Pacific War are edited together like a rousing action film replete with explosions and images of destruction, opening the film with a communal memory of a violent past. The absence of sound only makes the visuals stronger, allowing blasts and explosions created by a very fertile imagination to marry their appropriate images shotgun-style. The story, possibly invented again by the same fertile imagination, has foreigners waging war in the Philippines, with the hapless Filipinos, forced either to take sides or die without even trying. Like the rubbles from the war of those imperialists, Filipinos are but reminders of a history that is not their own. Lav Diaz, the foremost figurehead of Filipino independent filmmaker ends the turmoil and welcomes everyone to the great cinema party like some kind of deus ex machina.
A group of friends assemble in Corregidor, a tiny island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. Like the picnickers from that mysterious early Peter Weir film, they explore the curious landscape, digging for memorabilia, taking photos, and relishing in nuggets of trivia about the place. An explosion is heard from far away. It is more than a ghost from the past. They retire in a rustic mansion. They have escaped the fate of the famous Weir picnickers, thankfully. There is more to Martin's film than manufactured atmosphere and head-scratching endings. In the mansion, another guest reveals the filmic past of the mansion, how it played opulent settings to celebrated films of those anonymous golden ages Filipino cinephiles reminisce with both glee and regret.
The film's third half features the party itself. Local film personalities arrive in hordes, brandishing bottles of San Miguel while carrying plates full of food over a makeshift tent that is cinematically ornamented with globes of yellow light. Music drowns the discussions, the topics of which range from movies to nonsense. Everything fades to black. Only the high-spirited music's left, teasing the fertile imagination, the same way the wartime images teased it to invent sounds and stories, to conjure images. Against the oppressive darkness, suggestions of light, of pictures, of figures, of a formation of friends expecting a fireworks display to cap the night, are displayed.
These images are our fireworks display --- the patches of light over darkness, the cinema. We form our own tableaus, united and eagerly awaiting for the cure to the temporary void, that violent war. Where history is a wellspring for melancholy and regret for Martin, cinema, which has evolved for him from the absorbed art, the made-up philosophy, the tainted theories, the remembered experiences of being alone or together in a darkened room with a random work of a random artist from a random place in the world to that and the relationships that cinema has pushed to surface, becomes the reason to live. The Great Cinema Party is Martin's modest monument to the lifetime joys of the art for which he suffers for.
(Cross-published in Twitch.)


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Freedom of Expression: The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.14 min read updated on February 01, 2023
Freedom of Expression: ACLU Briefing Paper Number 10
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." -- The First Amendment
The inhabitants of the North American colonies did not have a legal right to express opposition to the British government that ruled them. Nonetheless, throughout the late 1700s, these early Americans did voice their discontent with the Crown. For example, they strongly denounced the British parliament's enactment of a series of taxes to pay off a large national debt that England had incurred in its Seven Years War with France. In newspaper articles, pamphlets and through boycotts, the colonists raised what would become their battle cry: "No taxation without representation!" And in 1773, the people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony demonstrated their outrage at the tax on tea in a dramatic act of civil disobedience: the Boston Tea Party.
The early Americans also frequently criticized the much-despised local representatives of the Crown. But they protested at their peril, for the English common law doctrine of "seditious libel" had been incorporated into the law of the American colonies. That doctrine permitted prosecution for "false, scandalous and malicious writing" that had "the intent to defame or to bring into contempt or disrepute" a private party or the government. Moreover, the law did not even accommodate the truth as a defense: in 15th century England, where absolute obedience to the Crown was considered essential to public safety, to call the king a fool or predict his demise was a crime punishable by death.
The colonies' most celebrated seditious libel prosecution was that of John Peter Zenger in 1735. Zenger, publisher of the 'New York Weekly Journal', had printed a series of scathing criticisms of New York's colonial governor. Although the law was against Zenger, a jury found him not guilty -- in effect, nullifying the law and expressing both the jurors' contempt for British rule and their support for a free and unfettered press. After Zenger's acquittal, the British authorities abandoned seditious libel prosecutions in the colonies, having concluded that such prosecutions were no longer an effective tool of repression.
The stage was set for the birth of the First Amendment, which formally recognized the natural and inalienable right of Americans to think and speak freely: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Following are the ACLU's answers to questions we have been asked by members of the public about the history of the First Amendment and the freedoms it guarantees.
What Were the Philosophical Underpinnings of the First Amendment's Guarantees?
James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the other framers of the Bill of Rights were products of the Age of Enlightenment. They eschewed the superstitions and intolerance of earlier times, believing instead in the power of reason, the search for truth, and the perfectability of human society. Freedom of inquiry and liberty of expression were clearly essential to the process of debate and discovery that they viewed as indispensable to the achievement of human progress.
Questioning of authority was also a central theme of the Enlightenment era. The philosophers of the day well understood the tendency of government to perpetuate itself by enacting repressive measures to silence those opposed to its conduct. According to one libertarian thinker of the period, a citizen had the right to "say everything which his passions suggest; he may employ all his time, and all his talents...to do so, in speaking against the government matters that are false, scandalous and malicious," and yet he should be "safe within the sanctuary of the press." Speech was regarded as beyond the reach of criminal sanctions; only "overt acts" could be punished.
Given the primacy that the framers assigned to the values the First Amendment embodies, it is fitting that freedom of expression should be the first freedom cited in the Bill of Rights.
Why Does Freedom of Expression Play Such a Critical Role in Our Constitutional System?
There are four primary reasons why freedom of expression, which encompasses speech, the press, assembly and petition, is essential to a free society:
First, freedom of expression is the foundation of self-fulfillment. Self- expression enables an individual to realize his or her full potential as a human being. The right of individuals to express their thoughts, desires, and aspirations, and to communicate freely with others, affirms the dignity and worth of each and every member of society. Thus, freedom of expression is an end in itself and should not be subordinated to any other goals of society.
Second, freedom of expression is vital to the attainment and advancement of knowledge. The eminent 19th century civil libertarian, John Stuart Mill, contended that enlightened judgment is possible only if one considers all facts and ideas, from whatever source, and tests one's own conclusions against opposing views. But the right to express oneself is not conditioned on the content of one's views, which may be true or false, "good" or "bad," socially useful or harmful. All points of view should be represented in the "marketplace of ideas" so that society can benefit from debate about their worth.
Third, freedom of expression is necessary to our system of self-government. If the American people are to be truly sovereign, the masters of their fate and of their elected government, they must be well-informed. They must have access to all information, ideas and points of view. The precondition for a free society is an informed and enlightened citizenry. Tyrannies thrive on mass ignorance.
Fourth, freedom of expression provides a "check" against possible government corruption and excess, which seem to be permanent features of the human condition.
Restrictions on freedom of speech always authorize the government to decide how, and against whom, the restrictions should apply. The more authority the government has, the more it will use that authority to suppress unpopular minorities, criticism and dissent. Because freedom of expression is so basic to a free society, the ACLU believes that it should 'never' be abridged by the government.
What Was the Early History of the First Amendment and Freedom of Expression?
The First Amendment's early years were not entirely auspicious. Although the early Americans enjoyed great freedom compared to citizens of other nations, even the Constitution's framers, once in power, could not resist the strong temptation to circumvent the First Amendment's clear mandate. In 1798, seven years after the First Amendment's adoption, Congress, over the objections of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, passed the Alien and Sedition Act. Ironically, this Act incorporated much of the English law of seditious libel (indeed, seditious libel remained a part of our law for the next 171 years), and was used by the dominant Federalist Party to prosecute a number of prominent Republican newspaper editors. But none of those cases reached the Supreme Court.
Throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th, federal and state sedition, criminal anarchy and criminal conspiracy laws were used repeatedly to suppress expression by slavery abolitionists, religious minorities, early feminists, labor organizers, pacifists and left-wing political radicals. For example, prior to the Civil War every Southern state passed laws limiting speech in an attempt to stifle criticism of slavery. In Virginia, anyone who "by speaking or writing maintains that owners have no right of property in slaves" was subject to a one-year prison sentence.
In 1929, feminist Margaret Sanger was arrested for giving a lecture on birth control. Trade union meetings were banned and courts routinely granted employers' requests for injunctions that prohibited strikes and other labor protest. Protest against U.S. entry into World War I was widely suppressed, and dissenters were jailed for their pronouncements and writings. In the early 1920s, many states outlawed the display of red or black flags, symbols of communism and anarchism. In 1923, author Upton Sinclair was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment at a union rally. Many people were arrested merely for membership in groups regarded as radical by the government. It was in response to the excesses of this period that the ACLU was born in 1920.
How Did the Courts Respond to First Amendment Violations?
The lower courts were almost universally hostile to the First Amendment rights of political minorities. However, free speech issues did not reach the Supreme Court until 1919. That year, the Court dealt with free speech for the first time in the case of 'Schenck v. U.S.' Charles T. Schenck, a member of the Socialist Party, had been convicted of violating the Espionage Act for mailing anti-war leaflets to draft-age men during World War I. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction. The prevailing legal view at the time was that any speech that had a "tendency" to cause a violation of law could be punished.
The 'Schenck' case was quickly followed by others that ended in decisions equally contemptuous of First Amendment freedoms. Among them was the case of Jacob Adams, convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 for distributing leaflets that criticized the American military. However, even though the Supreme Court upheld Abrams' conviction, the decision in his case was a watershed: Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis D. Brandeis dissented, stating that speech could not be punished unless it presented "a clear and present danger" of imminent harm. The Holmes-Brandeis dissent marked the beginning of modern First Amendment theory.
The Supreme Court declared the inviolability of First Amendment rights for the first time in 1925 in Gitlow v. New York, a case that challenged the conviction of a communist revolutionary under New York's Criminal Anarchy law. Although the Court affirmed the conviction, it announced that freedom of speech and press were protected by the First Amendment from federal encroachment, and "are among the fundamental personal rights and 'liberties' protected by the states." This holding paved the way for Yetta Stromberg to prevail, six years later, in an appeal of her conviction under a California law that made it a crime to publicly salute a red flag -- the symbol of revolution.
Thereafter, the right to freedom of expression became more secure -- that is, up until the advent of McCarthyism in the 1950s. During this second "red scare," the Supreme Court weakened the "clear and present danger" test by holding that speakers could be punished if they advocated overthrowing the government, no matter how remote the danger of such an occurrence might be. Under this new test, many political activists were prosecuted and jailed for advocating communist revolution. Laws that required people to sign loyalty oaths, swearing that they were not members of any subversive organizations, were also upheld and not reversed until 1967.
Finally, in the 1969 case of Brandenberg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court struck down the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan member under a criminal syndicalism law and established a new standard: Speech may not be suppressed or punished unless it is intended to produce "imminent lawless action" and it is "likely to produce such action." Otherwise, the First Amendment protects even speech that advocates violence. The 'Brandenberg' test is the law today.
What Forms of Expression Are Protected by the First Amendment?
In addition to protecting "pure speech," expressed in demonstrations, rallies, picketing, leaflets, etc., the First Amendment also protects "symbolic speech" -- that is, nonverbal expression whose main purpose is to communicate ideas. In the 1969 case of 'Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District', the Supreme Court recognized the right of high school students to protest the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands. In 1989 and again in 1990, the Court upheld the right of an individual to burn the American flag in public as an expression of disagreement with government policies. Other examples of protected expression include images in works of art, slogans or statements on T-shirts, "fashion statements" that incorporate symbols and/or written slogans or declarations, music lyrics and theatrical performances.
As well as protecting a free "marketplace of ideas" within our nation, the First Amendment also protects free trade in ideas across U.S. borders (although the law in this area is less well-defined). That protection encompasses both the right of Americans to travel and disseminate their ideas abroad, and their right to receive information from other countries -- in other words, their right to know. As Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. once observed, "The right to receive publications is a fundamental right...It would be a barren marketplace of ideas that had only sellers and no buyers."
Can Speech Be Curtailed If It Is Thought to Jeopardize National Security?
At several points in our history, particularly during wartime, the government has sought to limit speech in the interest of "national security," a vague term that, if construed too broadly, can be used to justify the suppression of information vital to public discourse.
The ongoing controversy that surrounds competing claims of national security and freedom of expression came to a head in 1971 in the 'Pentagon Papers' case. 'The New York Times' obtained a copy of, and published excerpts from, the so-called Pentagon Papers, a voluminous secret history and analysis of the nation's military involvement in Vietnam. When the 'Times' ignored the government's demand that it halt such publication in the interest of national security, the newspaper was enjoined from continuing to publish portions of the document. Two weeks later, on expedited appeal, the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not, through "prior restraint," block publication of any material unless it could prove that the material would "surely" result in "direct, immediate, and irreparable" harm to the nation. Since the government had not met its burden of proof, the 'Times' was free to continue the series.
While the Court's decision represented a victory for freedom of speech and the press, it did strike an ominous note by tacitly accepting a national security exception to the First Amendment's ban on prior restraint. And in subsequent years, the Court upheld the government's national security claims in several cases involving former CIA agents who had written their memoirs.
The ACLU believes that national security, like all government interests, must be served only in ways that are consistent with our tradition of respect for individual rights.
Why Should Racists and Other Hatemongers, or Those Espousing Anti-Democratic Political Doctrines, Have Free Speech Rights?
The Constitution does not authorize the government to assess the content of speech and the curtail the speech it judges to be irresponsible or wrong. If the government had such power, we would all be in danger. All people within the borders of the United States have the right to express themselves freely, even, in the words of Justice Felix Frankfurter, if they "speak foolishly and without moderation." In a society of laws, the laws must apply to everyone.
The ACLU's defense of the free speech rights of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party has often stirred controversy and drawn criticism. But popular and palatable ideas do not need protection from government suppression; only unpopular and offensive doctrines do. As one federal judge has put it, our toleration of hateful speech is "the best protection we have against any Nazi-type regime in this country."
The Supreme Court has consistently rejected the notion that speech can be punished because it offends some people's sensibilities, and has generally invalidated statutes and practices that penalize expression based on content. The Court has also taken a dim view of breach-of-the-peace statutes when applied to expressive conduct. In the 1949 case of Terminiello v. Chicago, the Court struck down the disorderly conduct conviction of an anti-Semitic priest (suspended by the church for his views), who had provoked a violent confrontation when he denounced Jewish people at a political rally. The Court's decision, written by Justice William O. Douglas, stated: "The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger."
Can Free Speech Be Limited in Any Way?
The government may place "time, place and manner" restrictions on speech as long as they are "reasonable." For example, requiring people to obtain a permit to hold a meeting in a public building, or to conduct a demonstration that may interfere with traffic, constitutes a justifiable regulation.
But restrictions that are overly burdensome violate the First Amendment. For example, during the 1960s, officials in Southern cities frequently required civil rights activists to apply for permits in order to hold demonstrations, and then granted or denied the permits arbitrarily. Thus, in the 1969 case of Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, the Supreme Court struck down such licensing schemes as unconstitutional. Similarly, in 1977, the Court ruled that the local government's requirement that members of the American Nazi Party post $350,000 in insurance in order to hold a march and rally in Skokie, Illinois was an unconstitutional infringement on the group's First Amendment rights. Insurance requirements were also regularly used in the South to repress civil rights demonstrations.
Are Any Forms of Expression Not Protected by the First Amendment?
The Supreme Court has established several limited exceptions to the First Amendment's protections:
- Fighting Words: In the 1942 case of 'Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire', the Supreme Court held that so-called "fighting words...which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are not protected by the First Amendment and can be punished. The Court based its decision on the concept that such utterances are of "slight social value as a step to truth."
- Libel: In the 1964 case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court held, in a groundbreaking decision, that defamatory falsehoods published about public officials are not protected by the First Amendment and can be punished if the offended official can prove that his/her accuser published the falsehoods with "actual malice" -- that is, with the "knowledge that the statement was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." While the Court's decision addressed a particular type of common law libel, other kinds of "libelous statements" are also punishable.
- Commercial Speech: In the 1976 case of Virginia Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, the Supreme Court struck down a state ban on prescription drug advertising on First Amendment grounds. However, commercial speech -- which includes advertising, financial and credit reports, and the like -- still has far less First Amendment protection than other speech. Generally, it can be banned if it is, on the whole, misleading or takes undue advantage of its audience.
- Obscenity: "Obscene" material has historically been excluded from First Amendment protection, which has led to the official banning of such classics as James Joyce's Ulysses and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, as well as the criminal prosecution of countless publishers, book distributors, storekeepers, film distributors and artists. But in the 1973 case of 'Miller v. California', the Court re-examined the issue and established a standard for determining whether material is obscene. The Court ruled that material is legally obscene if: (1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would conclude that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interests; (2) it depicts sexually explicit conduct, specifically defined by law, in a patently offensive manner; and (3) it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. The 'Miller' test is still the law today.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's long-standing unwillingness to strike down all obscenity laws as unconstitutional infringements on freedom of expression has allowed censorship to flourish at various times in our history because of public officials' tendency to apply the Court's narrow limits in overbroad ways. This remains a problem with all of the limited exceptions to the First Amendment.
Is Freedom of Expression in Danger Today?
The right to freedom of expression is being severely tested today, just as it has been throughout the 200-year history of the Bill of Rights. Governments by nature are always seeking to expand their powers beyond proscribed boundaries, the government of the United States being no exception. And since the right to free expression is not absolute, it must be constantly protected against official depredations.
Today, artistic expression is under attack, as some groups of citizens seek to impose their morality on the rest of society. Book censorship in the public schools, mandatory record labeling, as well as obscenity prosecutions of rap singers, record distributors and museum directors, are all manifestations of suppression efforts. Artists, performers and authors now occupy the same vulnerable position that political radicals did in the 1950s.
If the past two centuries of struggle to preserve freedom of expression have taught us anything, it is that the first target of government suppression is never the last. Whenever government gains the power to decide who can speak and what they can say, the First Amendment rights of all of us are in danger of being violated. But when all people are allowed to express their views and ideas, the principles of democracy and liberty are enhanced.
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OCEAN CITY – A nine-alarm fire filled the skies with smoke last Sunday afternoon, drawing 22 fire companies from across two states to battle the flames that would quickly engulf and destroy two Boardwalk businesses.
Last Sunday will remain in the memories of many community members and firefighters for years to come, as fire companies and an entire community came together to fight the massive fire that would ultimately leave two Boardwalk businesses in ruins and significantly damage a third. Although the damage runs deep and will be felt for many years, business owners and town officials were thankful this week for the lives and property spared, the efforts taken and the chance to rebuild.
"It could have been far worse for other buildings on that block if the firefighters had not acted as quickly and decisively as they did," said Council President Joe Mitrecic this week, applauding firefighters on a job well done.
The Ocean City Police Department first responded to the scene at 12:04 p.m. in response to a reported assault in progress. When officers arrived, they were met with the initial smoke and flames that would ultimately destroy the Dough Roller and neighboring T-shirt shop, Sunshine Beachwear, and damage Marty's Playland.
Ocean City Fire Services were the first to arrive to the active fire. Over the course of the next two hours, 22 fire companies would join Ocean City firefighters, bringing in 38 engines and 15 trucks to battle the blaze. Fire companies from Worcester, Sussex and Wicomico counties joined the efforts and were able to control the fire by 2:25 pm.
"The first call came in at approximately 12:04 and the chief put the fire under control at 2:25," said Ocean City Volunteer Fire Company Public Information Officer Steve Price.
Firefighters remained on the scene well past midnight to ensure that the scene remained safe.
"We had people there well past midnight," said Price, who explained that the collapse of the roof left several hot spots within the building. "We stayed on just to make sure there wasn't any rekindling of the embers."
It was clear from the scene Sunday afternoon that Sunshine Beachwear as well as the Dough Roller, a fixture of the south end of the Boardwalk, known for its famous Dayton's fried chicken, would not survive the fire.
"That building is completely destroyed, a complete loss," said Price.
Marty's Playland was more fortunate, however, sustaining fire damage along the first floor, mainly along the adjacent wall, and more extensive damage in the second floor apartments.
Although both buildings maintained damage, Price remained thankful that only one minor injury resulted from the blaze. One firefighter sustained eye injuries. He was taken to Atlantic General Hospital and released later that day.
"I saw him back on the scene that night," Price said. "That was the only injury reported to us which is great."
As the embers cooled this week, Dough Roller owner Bill Gibbs was quick to count his losses and move toward rebuilding. The Dough Roller was razed this week, the first of many steps in the rebuilding process.
"They don't believe the origin of the fire was from the Dough Roller," Gibbs said this week. "If the wind had gone the other way, the whole block probably would have been gone. It could have been both of us, Marty's could have been gone too. I played in that arcade as a kid."
As a result, crews were able to move in as early as Monday to demolish the building that has been standing proudly along the Boardwalk for many years.
"It was real old, I know it was originally built in the early 1900's. We had been there 24 years," said Gibbs.
Watching the walls of his business literally go down in flames was undoubtedly painful for Gibbs, but it was the antique memorabilia, wood paneling and classic ceilings that struck his heart the most.
"The old ceilings, the lunchboxes, those things can never be replaced," said Gibbs.
The walls of the Dough Roller were lined with classic lunchboxes collected over the years, Gibbs said.
Despite the devastating loss, Gibbs is looking to the future, already working to rebuild and plan for next summer.
"We just stayed up all last night," Gibbs said Tuesday.
His team has already been working tirelessly with Becker Morgan to draw up designs for the new restaurant. Although this season is lost for the downtown Dough Roller, Gibbs is aiming to be open for business by next April.
"We certainly could not afford to lose next season, too," he said.
Like Price, Gibbs is thankful that everyone was led to safety. Although the fire took no lives, many will ultimately be affected by the temporary loss of business.
"There are four families that live off of that business besides myself. We're fortunate that we have other businesses," said Gibbs, referring to the many long-time employees who depend on their jobs at the Dough Roller.
However, employees will be redistributed to other Dough Roller locations in the interim.
"We're going to struggle with it, but we're hopeful for next season," Gibbs said.
Ultimately, Gibbs is thankful to the men and women who worked to save his business and the other businesses along the Boardwalk that could have perished as well.
"It's impossible to imagine how hard those men worked on that fire," said Gibbs, stressing how thankful he is for their efforts. "How happy we should all be, as a community, to have a volunteer fire company like ours."
Mitrecic reinforced those sentiments, thanking every firefighter for their efforts. "When I arrived at the scene I didn't see volunteers and career firefighters, I saw firefighters. I'd like to extend a thank you to everyone that was there."
As of Thursday, no information as to the cause of the fire had been released.


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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
I'm (almost) Back!
18 comments:
- Lish & Matt said...
Big Team Hug!!!! Welcome Back!
- December 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM
- simplelove1437 said...
Your cooking inspires me to try to new things! :) thanks for the hard work!
- December 3, 2013 at 4:35 PM
- Unknown said...
Yea! Welcome back Chef John!!
- December 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM
- Unknown said...
One week off?!
Not in a civilized society!
Max 1 1/2
- December 3, 2013 at 6:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Excited for your return. I hope that
you do "NOT" show a brick oven pizza recipe that you did "NOT" bake in an illegal brick oven. *wink, wink* - December 3, 2013 at 7:54 PM
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- December 3, 2013 at 7:56 PM
- Unknown said...
hope you had an awesome thanksgiving and thanks again for all the awesome recipes...we had a 'foodwishes' thanksgiving with peruvian turkey, cream biscuits, apple pie, pumpkin pie and no knead bread + homemade butter...all from your tutorials!! :) keep them comin :)
- December 3, 2013 at 8:48 PM
- Unknown said...
I would love to not have a brick oven from the bricks that are not in my back yard. Suspense. Stupendous!
- December 3, 2013 at 10:31 PM
- Ed the house chef said...
I hope this means we're "not" going to see a new pizza recipe soon :)
- December 3, 2013 at 10:56 PM
- Thickethouse.wordpress said...
Thousands have missed you, Chef John!
Welcome back. - December 4, 2013 at 12:12 AM
- John In WNC said...
NOT building an illegal brick oven in your back yard is probably one of the most relaxing things a fellow could do.
I find the older I get the longer my 'Don't do' list gets & the more relaxed I feel! I am starting on page three of the list.
Welcome back, we all love your work. - December 4, 2013 at 12:45 AM
- MajinX said...
Welcome Back Chef John!! I just wanted to thank you for all the recipes that you post. We just have our first Thanksgiving as a newly married couple, and i used all of you recipes for our dinner and it wouldn't have been possible without your expertise and recipes :)
- December 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM
- Sylvain said...
Stoked to have you back pal!
Hope you enjoyed your well deserved vacation :) - December 4, 2013 at 12:06 PM
- Jayme said...
Has anyone else noticed that Chef John "sings" his instructions? Happy holidays everyone!
- December 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM
- Sandra from Montreal said...
We missed you more! :)
So happy you're back! - December 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM
- Kathy Lacy said...
So glad your back, you were missed. My husband and I went to mom's for Thanksgiving. I had prepared some food at my home so mom wouldn't have to do so much cooking. When we got there Wednesday afternoon I turned the stove on and put in your buffalo chicken dip so it would be ready for people coming in that evening. 20 minutes later I went to check it and we had not even realized the stove hadn't heated up! Are you kidding me?! Thanksgiving Eve and the stove went out! We checked and did still have the top burners AND the broiler worked. So we were thankful. Also my brother lives across the yard and we could use his stove.
The next day the the bird cooked at my brothers without any problems and it was beautiful. I'm trying to heat up the sides in the broiler and everything is going pretty good. I made your recipe for cream biscuits and mom took them to my brothers to cook. I didn't know they had spilled turkey juice in the bottom of the oven taking the turkey out. Mom comes back with biscuits still on sheet pans not cooked. Apparently when the stove was turned to a high heat to cook the biscuits it started smoking, lol my brother thought he had cleaned most of the drippings from the stove....The first thing he thought to do was throw a dish towel on it....I was told that there was a huge "WHOOOSH" and his stove caught on fire! (Everyone was fine, and they got the fire put out!)
Well, believe it or not Chef John you can broil your cream biscuits. Just make sure to flip those suckers over! Lol AND my mom who doesn't care all that much for bread sat and waited patiently at the dinner table while the 2nd batch "broiled" so she could have a hot one! They were devine!
There were other recipes of yours I made and everything was great. As my husband and I sat back in our bed the next night, he with a big slice of pumpkin pie in his hand (his favorite dessert) I ask him if he liked it better than my old recipe. His head started nodding slowly......I waited...."this is really good pumpkin pie, the best I ever ate." TOUCHDOWN!!! By the way, did you notice it didn't have a crack in it!! ;) - December 6, 2013 at 8:49 AM
- Unknown said...
So glad you were able to have a nice break!! We thoroughly enjoyed our Foodwishes Thanksgiving!! We picked our whole menu from your recipes and I have to say, it was the best ever. Thank you Chef John for your inspiration
- December 6, 2013 at 4:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Ok, I'm curious, what would make a pizza stove illegal?The hot temps?
- December 8, 2013 at 1:29 AM